Table A. Job openings, hires, and total separations by industry, seasonally adjusted

Table A. Job openings, hires, and total separations by industry, seasonally adjusted
Category	Job openings			Hires			Total separations
Category	July 2025	June 2026	July 2026(p)	July 2025	June 2026	July 2026(p)	July 2025	June 2026	July 2026(p)
LEVELS BY INDUSTRY (in thousands)

Total	7,089	7,182	7,271	5,225	5,332	5,054	5,170	5,337	5,072
Total private	6,307	6,420	6,461	4,908	5,016	4,758	4,855	5,002	4,731
Mining and logging	12	23	22	16	21	24	21	24	25
Construction	305	298	326	333	319	366	313	327	324
Manufacturing	428	501	580	295	333	288	300	308	286
Durable goods	255	353	429	167	208	177	166	184	162
Nondurable goods	172	149	151	128	125	111	135	125	124
Trade, transportation, and utilities	1,099	1,286	1,271	993	1,109	1,059	1,021	1,106	1,104
Wholesale trade	181	174	224	159	154	156	169	141	168
Retail trade	576	728	731	567	646	625	570	666	658
Transportation, warehousing, and utilities	342	383	316	267	309	277	282	299	277
Information	157	89	96	70	73	68	81	85	70
Financial activities	396	390	401	214	181	149	218	180	167
Finance and insurance	303	283	285	151	129	92	151	130	106
Real estate and rental and leasing	93	107	116	63	52	57	67	50	61
Professional and business services	1,240	1,203	1,138	1,047	1,088	900	1,059	1,021	901
Private education and health services	1,429	1,501	1,553	805	802	777	703	759	752
Private educational services	135	117	116	93	95	101	90	85	95
Health care and social assistance	1,295	1,384	1,438	711	707	676	613	674	657
Leisure and hospitality	970	825	783	946	861	885	963	944	896
Arts, entertainment, and recreation	129	134	110	152	139	149	173	170	154
Accommodation and food services	840	691	673	793	722	736	790	774	742
Other services	270	303	291	190	230	242	177	248	207
Government	781	762	810	317	316	296	314	336	341
Federal	135	110	108	25	28	26	35	30	31
State and local	647	652	702	292	288	270	279	306	311
State and local education	222	267	251	151	142	130	148	155	156
State and local, excluding education	424	386	451	141	146	140	131	151	155



RATES BY INDUSTRY (percent)

Total	4.3	4.3	4.4	3.3	3.4	3.2	3.3	3.4	3.2
Total private	4.5	4.5	4.5	3.6	3.7	3.5	3.6	3.7	3.5
Mining and logging	1.9	3.6	3.5	2.7	3.5	4.0	3.4	3.9	4.1
Construction	3.6	3.5	3.8	4.0	3.8	4.4	3.8	3.9	3.9
Manufacturing	3.3	3.8	4.4	2.3	2.6	2.3	2.4	2.4	2.3
Durable goods	3.2	4.3	5.2	2.1	2.6	2.2	2.1	2.3	2.1
Nondurable goods	3.5	3.0	3.1	2.7	2.6	2.3	2.8	2.6	2.6
Trade, transportation, and utilities	3.7	4.3	4.2	3.5	3.9	3.7	3.6	3.9	3.8
Wholesale trade	2.9	2.8	3.6	2.6	2.5	2.6	2.8	2.3	2.8
Retail trade	3.6	4.5	4.5	3.7	4.2	4.0	3.7	4.3	4.3
Transportation, warehousing, and utilities	4.5	5.1	4.2	3.7	4.3	3.9	3.9	4.2	3.8
Information	5.2	3.1	3.3	2.4	2.6	2.4	2.8	3.1	2.5
Financial activities	4.1	4.1	4.2	2.3	2.0	1.6	2.4	2.0	1.8
Finance and insurance	4.3	4.1	4.1	2.2	1.9	1.4	2.2	1.9	1.6
Real estate and rental and leasing	3.6	4.2	4.6	2.6	2.1	2.3	2.7	2.1	2.5
Professional and business services	5.2	5.1	4.8	4.7	4.8	4.0	4.7	4.5	4.0
Private education and health services	5.0	5.1	5.3	2.9	2.9	2.8	2.6	2.7	2.7
Private educational services	3.2	2.8	2.8	2.3	2.3	2.5	2.2	2.1	2.3
Health care and social assistance	5.3	5.5	5.7	3.0	3.0	2.8	2.6	2.8	2.7
Leisure and hospitality	5.4	4.6	4.4	5.6	5.1	5.2	5.7	5.6	5.3
Arts, entertainment, and recreation	4.6	4.8	4.0	5.6	5.2	5.6	6.4	6.4	5.8
Accommodation and food services	5.6	4.6	4.5	5.6	5.0	5.2	5.6	5.4	5.2
Other services	4.3	4.8	4.6	3.2	3.8	4.0	2.9	4.1	3.4
Government	3.2	3.2	3.4	1.3	1.4	1.3	1.3	1.4	1.5
Federal	4.4	3.9	3.9	0.8	1.0	1.0	1.2	1.1	1.1
State and local	3.0	3.1	3.3	1.4	1.4	1.3	1.4	1.5	1.5
State and local education	2.0	2.4	2.3	1.4	1.3	1.2	1.4	1.4	1.4
State and local, excluding education	4.2	3.8	4.4	1.4	1.5	1.4	1.3	1.5	1.6
Footnotes (p) Preliminary
NOTE: Data are revised with the release of January data to incorporate the annual updates to the Current Employment Statistics employment estimates and the JOLTS seasonal adjustment factors.

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Last Modified Date: September 01, 2026